It was one of the best and fun 3D platform game that I've ever played. As all can think about, this game have a lot of jokes of sponjebob and your universe and in the stages there are many things that lead you to remember of cartoon. And about the mechanics I thought It's great and fun too and I was surprised by metroidvania mechanics when I got an ability and I could return in back stage to get a hidden item because of it.
This is a remake and I didn't play the back version, but playing It the first time was awesome.